This is similar to ljfong's request to be able to use an m3u file, but goes a step further...

I like the way Podtrapper allows the user to come back to the spot where you left off in playback - that works great for audiobooks. I generally put each audio book in a seperate folder, so moving to the next file isn't *too* hard, but because they are MP3 files, the regular media player finds them, and that's a pain in the butt.

What if Podtrapper allowed the user to select a set of MP3 files, perhaps a folder full, and then brought them in, kinda like they were a set within a podcast - a virtual podcast so to speak? There'd be a single place to go for that book, and podtrapper could mark them as .dat files and thus get them out of media player.

So I finally figured out how to hide stuff properly on both platforms. On BB if you mark a folder as 'hidden', the media player won't index it. (PT will still see it fine). On android, if you put a file in the folder named '.nomedia' (doens't have to have anything in it) it will do the same thing.

For adding a lot of files at once, you can highlight a folder and choose 'Add to playlist' (optionally after creating and switching to a new playlist) and PT will set up a proper playlist for you.

Is that what you were looking for?

-marcus

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Maybe I did something wrong, here's what I did:In the top of the SD card I have a folder "AudioBooks" - first I put an empty file ".nomedia" there. Didn't help.

In "AudioBooks", I have a folder for each book. I went to each of these folders and put an empty file ".nomedia" there, still didn't help - the files for each are mixed into the files presented in the media file screen.

I created the file on my laptop with a text editor, just an empty file. Do need to do anything to this files properties or any such???

Ahh-Haa! There's a trick to it. The directory can not already exist. Media player apparently caches the data and does not look each time its started.

I removed the "AudioBook" folder, and media player still showed all the MP3s that had been under there. I power cycled the phone - the files STILL showed there. I finally had to do a battery pull, and restart. Then, finally the names no longer showed in media player.

I added "AudioBooks" back, with a ".nomedia" file in it, put a book title folder in it, with MP3's and a ".nomedia" file in it and voilia! The files did not show up in media player.

So thanks, the suggestion works fine! I just needed to use a bigger hammer.